Valve-handle



(No Model.)

vH. R. FRISBIE. VALVE HANDLE.

Patented May 24, 1898.

wrrnn drains Parent @risica IIENRY R. FRISBIE, OF BELLEVILLE, NEYV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DAVID DODD, OF NEVARK, NEIY JERSEY.

VALVE-HANDLE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,696, dated May 24, 1898. Application nea June 90,1897. stanno. 642,919. (nommen T all w71 om t may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY R. FRISBIE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Belleville, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Valve-Handles, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to handles for valvespindles; and it consists in certain details of Io construction to be more fully described in the following specification, whereby the breaking of the wooden handle of the valve-spindle is not only prevented to a great extent, but when accidentally broken it cannot fall oil?.

To enable othersto fully understand my invention, reference is had to the accompany ing drawings, in which- Figure l represents an upper plan view of a wooden handle, top retaining-plate, and retaining-screw. Fig. 2 represents the reversed side of the wooden handle, bottom retainingplate, and sectional View ot Athe valve-spindle. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view through line 9c of Fig. l. Fig. a is a detail perspective view of the bottom retaining-plate. Fig. 5 is a detail central sectional view of the top retaining-plate, showing the use of a round-headed holding-screw. Fig. 6 is a central sectional view of the upper and lower retaining-plates, showing a modified construction for attaching the upper plate to the valve-spindle.

Its construction and operation are as follows:

l is the wooden handle, having a central depression to receive the top retaining-plate 2. This plate is provided with the downwardprojecting flange 3, adapted to enter a concentric groove formed in the upper face of said handle. rIhe central portion ot this plate is provided with the boss 4.-, through which boss and plate is formed a hole to admit the screw 5, the conntersunk head of which fits a countersink in the said plate and boss. The lower plate 6 has also the upturned flange portion 7, adapted to iit a concentric groove formed in the bottom surface of the wooden handle. This latter groove, it will be observed, (see Fig. 3,) is much larger in diameter than the upper one to receive the ange 5o 3 of the upper plate and for obvious reasons,

for if the two grooves were exactly opposite each other, or nearly so, it would serve to greatly weaken the central portion of the handle. rIlhe central portion of this lower plate is also provided with rectangular flange S, surrounding the square hole 9,to admit the square end of the valve-spindle lO. Il are projections or retaining-points (see also Fig. 4) rising from the flange 7, adapted to enter holes at the bottom of the lower groove of the handle, whereby such handle is protected against rotation independent of the spindle.

The upper part ot such spindle is provided with a threaded hole to receive the screw 5, before mentioned. If desired, this screw may be dispensed with by simply spreading the end of the valve-spindle and having such threaded end 12, Fig. (5, engage a threaded hole in the upper plate 2, in which case, if desired, the boss fi may be reversed. The better plan, undoubtedly, would be that shown at Figs. l, 2, and 3, where there are no projections above the plate 2 to come in contact with the hand, especially when the metal parts have become more or less heated;

The square hole 13, Fig. 3, in the wooden handle to receive the iiange or curb 8 of the lower retaining-plate will also serve very effectually in preventing the turning of such handle.

The construction as above described makes not only a cheap but a durable handle, for should the wooden handle become accidentally-cracked or even split entirely in halves it cannot fall away. It is also a Very important and economical feature in assembling the wooden handles to the valve-spindles in the factory, as it has been the practice heretofore to bring the taper hole in such wooden handle directly in contact with the spindle, and consequently in forcing them thereon quite a large percentage of such handles are destroyed by splitting, while with the flange projection or curb ot the lower plate lining the tapered hole in the wooden handle there is no strain whatever on the wood. v

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, ina valve-spindle handle of the character described, of a wooden handle portion provided with a concentric ICO groove in its upper and lower face, said grooves of different diameters, so as to avoid weakening such Wooden portion, retainingplates provided With flanges bent at right angles to said plates, said anges adapted to enter said grooves so as to support such Wooden portion, in case of accidental breakage, said bottom plate having a hole to admit a valvespindle, a flange rising from the inner surface of said plate and surrounding said hole, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, in a valve-spindle handle of the character described, of a Wooden handle portion provided with concentric grooves of unequal diameters, as shown, upper and lower retaining-plates provided with anges to enter said `grooves, projections on the edge of the flange of the lower retainingplate, adapted to enter holes in the bottom of the loWer groove of the Wooden handle, a square curb having a square hole therethrough, rising from the central inner surface of said lower plate to admit the valve-spindle and support the Wooden handle, also having a square hole to t said curb, means substanstantially as shown for securing said handle to the spindle, for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Bridgeport, in the countT of Faireld and State of Connecticut, this 28th (lay of June, A. D. 1897.

HENRY R. FRISBIE. Witnesses:

JOHN B. CLAPP, M. J. KEANE. 

